{"id":570366,"date":"2026-05-07T03:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570366\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T03:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:25:10","slug":"united-rugby-championship-scarlets-sign-lock-harvey-cuckson-from-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570366\/","title":{"rendered":"United Rugby Championship: Scarlets sign lock Harvey Cuckson from Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cuckson is Scarlets&#8217; second confirmed summer arrival after the signing of Wales loose-head prop Corey Domachowski from Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Bringing in and developing players who have a connection to Welsh rugby is important to us,&#8221; added Davies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Harvey is a young player with genuine potential and, just as importantly, the mindset to grow within our environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cuckson faced Lions, Sharks, Glasgow, Dragons and Ulster in the URC, while he has also played for Bath in the Premiership Cup and Worcester in the Championship this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To be a part of the Scarlets and to play my rugby in Wales is a huge opportunity for me,&#8221; the Welsh-qualified former England Under-20s international said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to the challenge of the URC and getting stuck in with the squad in pre-season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scarlets are one from bottom of the URC and take on Ospreys in Bridgend on Saturday before finishing at home to Dragons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cuckson is Scarlets&#8217; second confirmed summer arrival after the signing of Wales loose-head prop Corey Domachowski from Cardiff.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-570366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}